08 October 2013

China Cows Photo Addendum

In the close of last Friday’s blog post, Beetle News, I mentioned the absence of cows in my area of the dairy capital of the US. Lest you think that I wouldn’t know a cow if I saw one, I offer this handful of photos I took in 1982 during a UN livestock development project in the Xinjiang Autonomous Region of China.

A stud bull at the Animal Breeding Center, Urumqi. (Yes, I saw him in action. Wow! Talk about no foreplay.)

Young cows and calves at a commune near Urumqi.

The commune’s dung pile is used mainly for cooking. (Sorry, beetles.)

Our convoy pulled aside as this herd of cows proceeded to a different pasture in the Altay Region.

Thank you for your excellent comments. Note, however, that the bull was "in action" with what I interpreted to be cows, and though there may be thousands of covert cows here in the Dairy Capital, I have yet to see one.